Virginia

“Virginia is for Lovers.” That’s the state’s marketing slogan created in 1969 and still in use today. The state is definitely for lovers of history, walking/hiking trails, and wine – especially in Charlottesville, located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Charlottesville is steeped in early American political history […]

One of the most visited historic homes in the United States is Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington, the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, president of the Constitutional Convention (where the U.S. constitution was written), and the man who became the new nation’s first